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Ackerman, NedSPIRIT HORSEScholastic 1998 0590397206 / 9780590397209 First Edition Softcover Near Fine Softcover is in very nice condition. It has been bound in such a way to cause some waviness near spine area on pages - doesn't affect readability. Book is otherwise clean, tight, with only minimal wear. 170 pages. Can this mystical horse ever be tamed? There is nothing Running Crane wants more than to have a horse of his own, and he dreams of riding not just any horse, but the spirit horse of the Snake People-a majestic and wild white stallion.... (os) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170 pages
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5.50 USD

Acland, EricADVENTURE WESTWARDThomas Nelson 1967 B002BIZ8VU First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket Illustrated by Merle Smith HC/DJ - near fine/good. Green cloth hardcover is clean and unmarked, slight spotting outer edge of pages and slight fading to edges. Jacket has several small edge tears, scuffing/light scratches and an chip (approx 2" x 1") out of rear, price clipped. Adventures of a 17-year old officer of the Royal Americans as he joins an expedition for copper headed for Fort Mackinac, Lake Superior during the time between the French and Indian Wars and the American Revolution. (475); 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 263 pages
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13.50 USD

Andersen, DorisBLOOD BROTHERSMacmillan Canada 1967 First Edition Hardcover Fine in Very Good dust jacket Hardcover is clean & unmarked, slight corner bumping, slight soiling outer edge of pages. 8vo (9" tall) , 136 pages. B/w illustrations. Jacket has light edgewear, light scuffing, few small tears & chips to edges, price clipped. As 11 year old Nels Leirvik works and plays around his family's tiny cabin on the Minnesota plains, he longs for two things: a dog and an adventure. With the unexpected arrival of Uncle Erik from Norway come both. Soon Nels and his dog, Viking, find themselves part of a group of emigrants bound for British Columbia and adventure in 1894 Bella Coola.....Juvenile/Young adult. (*shipping will be reduced to some locations); 8vo
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13.50 USD

Appleton Ii, VictorTOM SWIFT AND HIS SUBOCEAN GEOTRONGrosset & Dunlap 1966 B002C43YLY Hardcover Good+ No jacket as issued. Moderate edge and corner wear, small paper loss at corners, some scuffing and ink rubbing to covers, light fading to spine. Pages intact and quite clean, a few small spots seen, previous owner's name written fairly small on endpage and a little glue or tape residue inside back cover. B/w illus. "Tom's mission is to recover a valuable cache left on earth thousands of years ago by colonists from another planet. Can he locate it before his deadly foe, the Kranjovians, seize the capsule?" (400noto) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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13.50 USD

Benchley, NathanielONLY EARTH AND SKY LAST FOREVERHarper & Row 1971 006020494X / 9780060204945 First Edition Hardcover Good in Good dust jacket Ex-library book - still in good condition. Mylar cover and usual ex-lib type of markings. Pages are clean and tight, occasional earmark or light wrinkling. Light soiling, couple small ink markings to outer edge of pages. Hardcover has light edgewear. Jacket sleeve and jacket itself have some scuffing. . Benchley's story shows how the tragic Battle of the Little Bighorn changed the world for Dark Elk, a young man caught up in the destiny of his people. (452noto) ; 8vo
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6.00 USD

Betsy ByarsThe 18th EmergencyNew York Camelot / Avon 1974 0380000997 / 9780380000999 Third Printing Paperback Very Good Third printing, softcover. Pages all intact and clean other than previous owner's name written small on first endpage. Age tannning to pages and inside covers. Cover has scuffing, light edge/corner wear, small tear across spine and some spotting/soiling to rear cover. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Benjie and his friend Ezzie have often discussed what they would do if an octopus or a crocodile attacked them - but whatever is Benjie to do in the worst emergency of all, when Hammerman, the biggest boy in the school, is asking for a fight? The author also wrote "The TV Kid" and "The Cybil War". (115os, 5-18)
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6.95 USD

Brennan, J. H.SHIVA ACCUSED An Adventure of the Ice AgeHarper Trophy 1991 0064404315 / 9780064404310 First Edition Softcover Very Good Light edgewear, inscription inside front cover, couple light creases. Juvenile to Young Adult. Someone has killed the Hag, spiritual leader of all the Cro-Magnons, and it is Shiva who finds the body. Before she can tell her tribe the terrible news, she is kidnapped and falsely accused of the murder.... (**Shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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6.05 USD

Brennan, J. H.SHIVA An Adventure of the Ice AgeHarper Trophy 1992 0064403920 / 9780064403924 First Edition Softcover Good+ Some edgewear, edge rubbing, small chip bottom front, inscription inside front cover. Pages otherwise unmarked. Juv to Young Adult. A wolf has cornered Shiva. She is trapped! Then a young boy appears out of nowhere, and the wolf is dead. The boy who has saved Shiva's life looks like no one she has seen before.... (**Shipping will be reduced to all locations). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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5.50 USD

Brennan, J. H.SHIVA'S CHALLENGE An Adventure of the Ice AgeHarper Trophy 1992 0064404609 / 9780064404600 First Edition Softcover Very Good Light edgewear, inscription inside front cover, couple light creases. Juvenile to Young Adult. Shiva has been chosen to become her tribe's next spiritual leader. But to prove her worthiness, she must face her most chilling challenge yet - the Ordeal by Poison...But if Shiva chooses well, an even greater ordeal awaits her, a journey in a wilderness far from her home.... (**Shipping will be reduced to all locations). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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6.05 USD

Brinsmead, HesbaTHE SANDFORESTAustralia Angus & Robertson Publishers 1985 0207150494. / 9780207150494 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Light wear to edges, moreso to spine ends & corners, a few tiny tears to jacket. Light soiling to jacket & outer edge of pages. Interior clean & tight except for stamp on 1st page. This apparently came from a hospital lending library but the only indication is one small stamp on endpage. Young adult reading. Young Sky Herriot journeys to visit her uncles, a continent away, leaving all she knows behind her. She couldn't know that the next few weeks were to bring her face to face with beauty, with terror, and with that strange confusion called love; that they were to take her to a place like none she'd ever seen or imagined, where the past would offer up her secrets and the future its promise - a place called the Sand Forest. (*Shipping will be reduced to most locations) ; 8vo
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15.50 USD

Brittain, BillSHAPE-CHANGER Watch Out! They're Morphing!Harper Trophy 1995 0064405141 / 9780064405140 First Edition Softcover Near Fine Very nice condtion. Cover has a little wear at corners, light scuffing. Pages clean, age tanning to page edges and inside covers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; "Grade 3-6-Life in the new housing development of Rolling Acres Estates is pretty dull for seventh grader Frank Dunn, until the day he finds himself conversing with a red-and-white fire hydrant. The hydrant explains that it/he is really Zymel, a policeman of the Shilad, an alien race of shape-changers, which he proves by assuming the shape of a book, an airplane model, a kitten, a girl, and more, over the course of the story. Having crash-landed on Earth and lost the dangerous prisoner he was escorting to an asteroid exile, Zymel needs Frank's help..." (85-osl)
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3.95 USD

Brouwer, SigmundTHE FORSAKEN CRUSADEVictor Books 1993 0896931188 / 9780896931183 First Edition Softcover Very Good Signed by AuthorSigned and inscribed by author on endpage: "To ___, Hello from Red Deer! Sigmund Brouwer, Nov/Dec. 92. Pages are clean and tight, some age tanning to page edges and inside cover, several tiny corner creases. Cover is scuffed, with moderate edge and corner wear and a few small creases. Exiled from Magnus, Thomas discovers he cannot prevail against the false sorcerers and that England no longer remains safe for him. The only solution is to retrace the steps of the Last Crusader. In an Age of Darkness, Thomas must seek light in Jerusalem. (105-osl) ; Winds of Light, Book 4; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 130 pages; Signed by Author
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12.50 USD

Burgess, Thornton W. and Harrison CadyTHE ADVENTURES OF REDDY FOX The Bedtime Story BooksMcClelland and Stewart 1943 First Edition Hardcover Good+ in Fair dust jacket McClelland & Stewart 1943 edition. Hardcover/dustjacket- good+/fair. Burgess Trade Quaddies Mark. Hardcover has moderate wear to corners, lighter to edges, occasional light soiling to pages, two pages have a small area of rubbed text (I assume from a printing error) , name written on endpage and both flaps of jacket. Jacket in relatively poor condition with numerous taped tears, rubbing and creasing, a few ink markings. Now that Reddy Fox had grown so big, Granny Fox thought it about time that he began to learn the things that every fox should know. (166os); 12mo 7" - 7½" tall;
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9.95 USD